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African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie (Rod Steiger), the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their...
- August 2, 1967
- Norman Jewison
- Walter Mirisch
- MGM/UA Home Entertainment Inc.
- Stirling Silliphant
- Quincy Jones
- The Mirisch Company
- $2 M
- Virgil Tibbs Film Series
- Writing (Screenplay - Based on Material From Another Medium - won), Film Editing (won), Sound (won), Sound Effects, Directing (Norman Jewison), Actor (Rod Steiger - won), Best Picture (won)
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